The federal government may be shut down, but Silver Belle is on a tight schedule for her cross-country road trip from the forest of Nevada to the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol. Splayed out ...

The Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest has announced that a 53-foot red fir from the Carson Ranger District will represent Nevada as the 2025 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree. Jim Kaufmann, executive ...

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas—especially for the time being at the Nevada Air National Guard base in Reno. On Tuesday morning, members of the media got a first peek at Silver Belle, the ...

The Capitol Christmas tree’s journey from Nevada to Washington D.C. The Capitol Christmas Tree is the ultimate symbol of the holiday season and this year it hails from a forest in Nevada. From Nevada ...

WASHINGTON — After a gray, rainy day at the U.S. Capitol, the clouds parted, revealing a sunset that one could call borrowed from the desert skies of Nevada. A bald eagle circled overhead, squirrels ...

Even a government shutdown can't stop this year's official Capitol Christmas tree — the first ever from Nevada — from getting to Washington, D.C. While many members of the U.S. Forest Service and the ...

Southern Nevada is at risk of losing the few trees it has due to extreme heat, a loss that would only exacerbate how unevenly protective tree shade is distributed across communities in one of the ...